It’s the lifestyle they like and they don’t want the rules.

Bass said she has been told that one reason for the departures is dissatisfaction with the rules in place at the program’s hotels and motels. At the L.A. Grand Hotel, which is in downtown Los Angeles and currently being used as temporary homeless housing, residents have been prohibited from having guests in their rooms, she said.

 

Others have left Inside Safe because of struggles with addiction or deteriorating mental health, Bass said.